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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) Someone who never lived.
(b) A person which should be alive.
(c) A living being.
(d) Nothing at all.

2. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Fears.
(b) Biological needs.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Sexual desires.

3. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Fear.
(d) Desire.

4. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) The father.
(d) The mother.

5. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?
(a) Their background.
(b) Language.
(c) Other people.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

2. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

3. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

4. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

5. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

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